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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The “white-mustached, well dressed man” that the narrator encounters on the train in Chapter 10 fought in what war?
2. Where had the Union soldier invested capital, according to the narrator in Chapter 10?
3. What does the narrator claim the men gambling in the dice room are wearing in Chapter 6?
4. Where does the narrator describe spending many evenings and where “music there made [him] strangely reminiscent of my life in Connecticut” in Chapter 9?
5. Whose diplomacy does the narrator say is to be admired when the discussion of race comes up in the smoking train car in Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. What have critics noted in regard to the relationship between the millionaire and the narrator in the novel?
2. What does the narrator do upon arriving in New York in Chapter 6?
3. Whom does the narrator spot at the opera in Chapter 9? What is his reaction?
4. With whom does the narrator form a friendship on the ship to Boston in Chapter 10? What do they discuss?
5. Where does the narrator go after returning to the United States in Chapter 10? Who does he meet?
6. How does the narrator describe the draw of New York in Chapter 6? What imagery is used?
7. How is humor used in the slave narratives and in the novel?
8. How does the narrator describe the success of the Chinese restaurant under the “Club” in Chapter 7?
9. How does the narrator describe the rooming house and landlord where he first stays in New York in Chapter 6?
10. How is the millionaire described by the narrator? What does he look like?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the setting of Jacksonville, Florida, in the narrative. Why does the porter suggest that the narrator go to Jacksonville to find work? How did the segregation laws differ in Florida than Georgia during this time period? How does the narrator travel to Jacksonville?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the narrator’s relationship with and feelings for his father in the narrative. How does the narrator react upon learning the truth of his father’s identity? How does this realization influence the narrator’s personal identification? When does the narrator lose touch with his father, and why?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the imagery and symbolism used by the narrator in describing Paris and London in Chapter 9. How does he compare these cities? What are examples of personification, simile, and metaphor in his descriptions? How does this imagery affect the tone of this chapter?
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